3D Floor Plans

Summary

Floor Plan Management gives installers a way to work on complex projects: they upload the plan to the installation manifest, Selora understands the floors and areas, and the installer places devices directly on the plan. Every placement lands a real coordinate in Selora. This item turns that data into a product of its own — Selora extrapolates the plan plus the manifest and automatically builds a 3D floor dashboard for the home.

The installer’s problem

• Complex projects live in 3D, planning happens in 2D. A multi-floor install — ceiling fans, in-wall speakers, an NVR closet, a surround run — is a three-dimensional problem, but the plan is a flat sheet. Coordinates on the plan are the missing bridge between the drawing and the finished home
• Verification is a walk-through. Today, the only way to confirm a plan makes sense is to stand in the room with the printout in hand. There is no view of the project the way it will actually be
• The data exists and is unused. Installers already place devices on the plan, and the manifest already knows what is coming — the geometry is collected on the job site, then thrown away

What’s included

Automatic 3D floor dashboards

• Plans plus manifest, 3D out: Selora combines the placed floor plan, the device positions on it, and the installation manifest to generate a 3D floor for each level of the home — no separate modeling step
• Devices where they will actually be: each device in the manifest appears in the 3D floor at the position the installer placed it, so the model reflects the plan, not a generic layout
• Updates follow the plan: when the installer moves a device on the 2D plan or the manifest changes, the 3D floor rebuilds to match

What it is for

• Installers verifying complex projects: step through the home before installation day and catch a misplaced speaker, a fan with no clearance, or a run that crosses a wall
• A shareable source of truth: the 3D floor is what the homeowner, the project, and the next installer on site all see — the same model, generated from the same data

Why it matters

• It pays for the data collection. Every device an installer places on a plan becomes an asset: the flat drawing stops being a throwaway and starts feeding the live model of the home
• Installation-day risk drops. A wrong placement caught in 3D costs a minute; caught on the ladder, it costs a trip back to the warehouse
• It is the 3D foundation for the home dashboard. Once every floor is a generated 3D space with real device positions, everything downstream — dashboards, navigation, future automation views — can render the home as it actually is

The complexity

• Extrusion from a 2D plan. Turning a flat plan into a 3D floor means inferring heights, floor boundaries, and stacking from drawings that were never modeled — and doing it well enough that a device sits in a room, not through a wall
• Keeping 2D and 3D in lockstep. The plan is the source of truth; the 3D floor is a build artifact. Every plan edit has to propagate without drift, and a failed build can never block the installer from finishing the plan
• Device-to-manifest matching. Placed items have to line up with manifest entries reliably — same device, same position — or the model quietly lies

Out of scope (for now)

• Free-form 3D modeling — placing and moving objects manually in 3D; this is a generated view of the 2D plan, not a design tool
• Rendering hardware or AR — headsets and in-room augmented views; the dashboard is the surface
• Homes without a placed plan — no plan, no coordinates, no generated floor